Application crash via registration-field buffer overflow
Published Jan 15, 2026 · Updated Jan 15, 2026
Buffer overflow in Nsasoft NBMonitor Network Bandwidth Monitor 1.6.8 allows local users to crash the application via a crafted registration key. The registration dialog copies a pasted 256-character key into a fixed-size buffer without checking the destination length. Exploitation requires local interaction with the desktop dialog, and the documented consequence is termination of the NBMonitor process.
Summary
What happened
Buffer overflow in Nsasoft NBMonitor Network Bandwidth Monitor 1.6.8 allows local users to crash the application via a crafted registration key. The registration dialog copies a pasted 256-character key into a fixed-size buffer without checking the destination length. Exploitation requires local interaction with the desktop dialog, and the documented consequence is termination of the NBMonitor process.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-47814
- Published
- Jan 15, 2026
- Updated
- Jan 15, 2026
- Vendor
- Nsasoft
- Product
- NBMonitor Network Bandwidth Monitor
- Classifications
- CWE-120
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 15, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 15, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.6.8
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Public exploit references
- NBMonitor 1.6.8 - Denial of Service (PoC)proof of concept · demonstrated
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